Name: Lament (Ultravox cover) by NeilDube
Duration: 4 min 5 s
Description: Here's another Ultravox cover I've done - this is another for the 2012 competition. Again, it's in the 'I didn't see that coming' category - I much prefer doing something totally different to trying to make the same sounds or a less interesting copy...

Here's another entry for this year's Ultravox website covers competition. Like 'Love's Great Cocktail Adventure' it's in an unexpected style. Ultravox songs were always very melodic so I figured this one, with it's melancholy feel would work well as an arrangement for a string quartet. Hope you enjoy it.

Rapture (Ian Betts Redux)

Sea Snake Beware - The Sea Nymphs

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At the heart of the Ostinato series there is an entirely new process that we've been developing for quite some time now. From the recording stage, the entire approach is different from our regular phrase instruments in that we recorded separate intervals for various rhythm building blocks. After careful editing we combine these intervals through an intelligent script that builds them into chords in 5 different voicings and up to 4 inversions (the fourth only for 7th chords).
Not only does the engine build the chords based on the inversion you play in the chord area, but when you play in the harmonic shift area it will judge which inversion it plays based on the chord that came before it, the chord quality on the key you're in and the position of the chord you're triggering in that key. This ensures that transitions are smooth and harmonically correct. 
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Ostinato Strings Demo - Alignment - by Marie - Anne Fischer

Counterpoint

Counterpoint III

Another "never-heard-before" track from the 180Gs a cappella cover version of Cardiacs' Sing To God album.
Just up for a short time. Thanks!

Fairy Mary Mag (Cardiacs cover) by the 180 Gs

Demo of my soundbank for a perfect Yamaha CS80 synthesizer-emulation by Ian Webster, called the "Arminator".
He created this synth in honour of me and I put all my efforts into
the making of a remarkable soundbank - as a tribute to VANGELIS,
the famous electronic pioneer, who used the CS80 as his main synth.
All sounds played in this demo are from this bank (except the drums/percussion) and without the use of external effects...

Arminator Soundbank Demo

Here's another Ultravox cover I've done - this is another for the 2012 competition. Again, it's in the 'I didn't see that coming' category - I much prefer doing something totally different to trying to make the same sounds or a less interesting copy...

Lament (Ultravox cover)

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The Sea Nymphs' Sea Snake Beware, arranged for fake orchestra.  
Get well soon, Tim!

Sea snake beware

Baby Heart Dirt - Piano Cover - Cardiacs

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